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Author : Carter Godwin Woodson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UOM:39015005645042
Author : Obiakor, Festus E.,Okoro, Dike
Publisher : Cissus World Press
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780997868975
African folklore, narratives, idiomatic expressions, and cultures are weaved into short sentences that are rich with wisdom. The primary goal of this book is to disseminate knowledge and share the rich culture of Africa, one does not have to be African to appreciate the creative language at play in this book. Readers are encouraged to use the wisdom embedded in these proverbs to transform their lives and the lives of their loved ones and friends.
Author : Dianne Stewart
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781432302368
In the words of author Dianne Stewart, 'African proverbs reflect both the past and the present, and are as relevant to contemporary society as they were to traditional society.' As with so much of African culture, proverbs have been passed on in the oral tradition so it's rare to find such a treasure trove as this; from across Africa, Dianne has compiled a fascinating collection. The text is given in the language of origin, an English translation and an explanation of the meaning. They are divided into subject groups such as human nature, family life, good fortune, time, animals and nature. Whether you're looking for that special African gift or would like to add to your own collection of reference books, Wisdom from Africa is an excellent choice.
Author : Charlotte Leslau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Humor
ISBN : PSU:000024152655
Proverbs from Ashanti, Baguirmi, Lesotho, Buganda, Cameroon, Ozaire, Ethiopia, Ethiopia Galla, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Rwanda Burundi, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zululand.
Author : George J. Sefa Dei,Mairi McDermott
Publisher : Canadian Scholars
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781773380612
A vital resource for educators, this collection offers refl ections on and samples of units and lessons with an anti-racism orientation that promote inclusive educational practices for today’s increasingly diverse K–12 classrooms. Engaging with multicentric cultural knowledges and stories, the contributors—consisting of classroom teachers, community workers, and adult educators—present units and lesson plans that challenge the Eurocentricity of curriculum design while also having practical applicability within various North American curricular models. These curriculum designs make space for students’ lived experiences inside the classroom and amplify critical social values, such as community building, social justice, equity, fairness, resistance, and collective responsibility, thereby addressing the issue of youth disengagement and promoting productive inclusion. Rich with sample units and lessons that are grounded in African oral traditions, this ground-breaking resource features critical guiding questions, suggestions for ongoing and culminating classroom activities, templates and resources, and notes to the teacher. Centering African Proverbs, Indigenous Folktales, and Cultural Stories in Curriculum is an essential tool for practising teachers, professional learning providers, and students in education and teaching programs across Canada and the United States.
Author : George Jerry Sefa Dei,Mairi McDermott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Curriculum planning
ISBN : 1773380621
"The broad goal of this edited collection is to improve educational practices in pluralistic contexts, such as Canadian schools, by substantively engaging African proverbs, Indigenous folktales, and cultural stories in curricular and pedagogical decisions. Each contributor works with a different proverb, folktale, or cultural story as a core text for the unit they've designed. Along with detailed notes for the instructor and one to two sample lesson plans, each contributor writes a reflection on the process of designing the unit with an anti-racism orientation. This book is aimed at courses focusing on diversity and inclusion and curriculum design within education programs."--
Author : Gerd de Ley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : IND:30000068969660
This extensive collection of 1755 proverbs spans all regions of the African continent, revealing much about the wisdom, humour, and character of its people and culture. Each proverb is arranged alphabetically by key words and includes the country, province, or tribe of origin. Charmingly illustrated with traditional African art from museums and collections around the world.
Author : Comfort Ashu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789956578498
In the olden days, after a day's work in the farms, children and parents returned home feeling worn out. As a sort of evening entertainment, children of the same family, compound or village then gathered round a story-teller to listen to folk tales and riddles. This was common in every African home. The listeners participate with joy by joining in the songs and choruses. Sometimes the children were given the opportunity to tell stories that they had known while the adult story-teller listened attentively in order to add more details where necessary. In telling these stories and riddles, children were expected to learn something through all those activities connected with the customs, environment, language and religious practices of their people. This book provides children with stories, riddles and some proverbs that parents ought to have told their children at home but have failed because of their present-day busy schedules. Teachers will fill that vacuum at school as they guide the children in reading the stories, riddles and proverbs in their second language - English. As an instructional tool, this collection will foster literacy, promote cultural awareness and create situations where learners share with one another their personal experiences and traditions.
Author : Carter Godwin Woodson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486114286
Compiled by the "Father of Black History," these fables unfold amid a magical realm of tricksters and fairies. Recounted in simple language, they will enchant readers and listeners of all ages. Over 60 illustrations.
Author : Jan Knappert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015018467194
This book contains hundereds of proverbs, collected in all parts of Africa, many by the author himself. The majority of these proverbs are presented here for the firts time in an English translation. Each proverb is labelled with the name of the country of its origin; some proverbs are so widely known that they can be categorised as, e.g., North African. Others are given with the name of the ethnic group or the language where each was recorded. In this way it is hoped the greatest possible variety is achieved and the readers will have a fair impression of the richness of African oral traditions.
Author : Dorothy BEA Akoto-Abutiate
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004274471
Proverbs and the African Tree of Life is Dorothy BEA Akoto-Abutiate’s argument that African folk sayings must be seen as the full-blown tree on to which the Biblical Proverbs can be “grafted” (that is, taught), be learned, understood and appropriated in Africa.
Author : CHARLOTTE. LESLAU
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 103329019X
Author : Chiku Malunga
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780761858720
Power and Influence demonstrates how the indigenous wisdom contained in African proverbs and folktales can be used to enhance modern life. The timeless wisdom contained in African proverbs and folktales enriches self-development and positive influence. The inspiring results provide deeper understanding of self-development and self-leadership, forming a solid foundation for leadership effectiveness at all levels. This book is among the first to consciously acknowledge and demonstrate the rationale of applying indigenous wisdom to enhance the understanding of disciplines, theories, and practice. African proverbs and folktales express an accumulated wisdom of human relations; add dimensions to practice in ways that are soulful, respectful, practical, and socially embedded. By using African indigenous wisdom, the book contributes towards the much-needed, cross-cultural dialogue among individuals, organizations and societies in this increasingly diversified world.
Author : Joseph Healey
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608331871
Reflects what traditional proverbs used in Christian catechetical, liturgical, and ritual contexts reveal about Tanzanian appropriations of and interpretations of Christianity.
Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Maria Tatar
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780871407566
Winner • NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) Winner • Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award Holiday Gift Guide Selection • Indiewire, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star-Tribune These nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature. Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Following in the tradition of such classics as Arthur Huff Fauset’s “Negro Folk Tales from the South” (1927), Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men (1935), and Virginia Hamilton’s The People Could Fly (1985), acclaimed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar assemble a groundbreaking collection of folktales, myths, and legends that revitalizes a vibrant African American past to produce the most comprehensive and ambitious collection of African American folktales ever published in American literary history. Arguing for the value of these deceptively simple stories as part of a sophisticated, complex, and heterogeneous cultural heritage, Gates and Tatar show how these remarkable stories deserve a place alongside the classic works of African American literature, and American literature more broadly. Opening with two introductory essays and twenty seminal African tales as historical background, Gates and Tatar present nearly 150 African American stories, among them familiar Brer Rabbit classics, but also stories like “The Talking Skull” and “Witches Who Ride,” as well as out-of-print tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman. Beginning with the figure of Anansi, the African trickster, master of improvisation—a spider who plots and weaves in scandalous ways—The Annotated African American Folktales then goes on to draw Caribbean and Creole tales into the orbit of the folkloric canon. It retrieves stories not seen since the Harlem Renaissance and brings back archival tales of “Negro folklore” that Booker T. Washington proclaimed had emanated from a “grapevine” that existed even before the American Revolution, stories brought over by slaves who had survived the Middle Passage. Furthermore, Gates and Tatar’s volume not only defines a new canon but reveals how these folktales were hijacked and misappropriated in previous incarnations, egregiously by Joel Chandler Harris, a Southern newspaperman, as well as by Walt Disney, who cannibalized and capitalized on Harris’s volumes by creating cartoon characters drawn from this African American lore. Presenting these tales with illuminating annotations and hundreds of revelatory illustrations, The Annotated African American Folktales reminds us that stories not only move, entertain, and instruct but, more fundamentally, inspire and keep hope alive. The Annotated African American Folktales includes: Introductory essays, nearly 150 African American stories, and 20 seminal African tales as historical background The familiar Brer Rabbit classics, as well as news-making vernacular tales from the 1890s’ Southern Workman An entire section of Caribbean and Latin American folktales that finally become incorporated into the canon Approximately 200 full-color, museum-quality images